Tony Snow: The Over-Responders

If there is one article to read about Katrina, it's Tony Snow's "The Over-Responders" at Townhall.

Let's face it, the political left -- aided and abetted by Pat Buchanan and members of the bed-wetting right -- made utter fools of themselves. Fortunately, the American public showed a surer sense of proportion and a greater knack for leadership.

He concludes:

When bad times come, we tell ourselves we can create good times. That's why nobody will care a year from now what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had to say this week. She offered nothing constructive.

Instead, in the manner of New Yorkers after Sept. 11, the folks who form our national heart and soul will bury the dead, care for the living and build upon ruined soil the foundations of a revived civilization -- chastened by the big storm, educated by the failures of a culture that spawned looters and cheats, and inspired by the opportunity to say to the large and deadly storm, "Nice try, but you picked on the wrong country."

Read it all. You'll love the term, "bed-wetting right."